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Youth Mission Afternoon

Submitted by Simon on 2009-06-08

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We did an afternoon session for a church youth group on mission. Long talks and presentations weren’t going to work, so we split the room into four areas and ran little tasks in each booth, bringing everyone together every so often for a quick talk on various aspects of world mission, and rotating people around the booths every half hour.

The programme

2:00-2:15: Welcome and people drifting in.

2:15-2:30: First booth session

2:30-2:40: First talk: The Bible and mission

2:40-2:55: Second booth session

3:00-3:10: Second talk: The challenge to mission

3:15-3:30: Third booth session

3:30-3:40: Third talk: Kanji evangelism

3:45-4:00: Fourth booth session

4-: Final session: Quiz-a-missionary

The Booths

God around the world

A looping video stream containing three or four videos about what God is doing in various parts of the world. (Not included here because the ones we put together weren’t actually very good…)

Maps and charts from the Joshua Project with a few stories about what God is doing.

Pointers for prayer for the countries presented in the videos.

Missionary testimonies

A missionary on hand, telling their story of how they got into mission.

Mission through the Bible

Panel discussion: quiz a missionary

Have paper and pens at each booth and encourage people to write down questions while going round. Then put the questions in a hat (with a few ringers in there just in case) as a way to start off discussion. Then take any other questions that come up.